START WITH ART: Birthday

Welcome/welcome back! We're starting our day by examining the painting pictured below. Take a look at the artwork then read the questions to the students/children in your life and see how starting your day with art can ignite creativity and critical thinking!

Title: Birthday

Artist: Marc Chagall

Date: 1915

Medium: Oil on cardboard

Dimensions: 80.6 x 99.7 cm

Start with Art Questions:

• The title suggests it's a birthday! Look at the painting. Whose birthday do you think it is? What details suggest a birthday? 

• Chagall was known for his dreamlike and imaginative style. What details in the painting are dreamlike or imaginative? 
  

• Describe the colors Chagall used. How do the colors make you feel? 

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